Upcoming

It Smells Like Girl @ Jeffrey Deitch
Sep
13
8:00 PM20:00

It Smells Like Girl @ Jeffrey Deitch

Special performance by Dynasty Handbag to be announced!

September 6–November 1, 2025
Opening reception: September 13, 2025, 6-8 pm

Jeffrey Deitch and Company Gallery are pleased to announce It Smells Like Girl, a thematic group exhibition co-organized by the two galleries that revisits the charged and often misunderstood concept of female hysteria through painting, video, sculpture, performance, screenings, and installation. Historically dismissed as a medical diagnosis, hysteria was less a pathology than a social mirror reflecting the anxieties, fears, and fantasies projected onto women’s bodies. Weaponized to silence and contain, this machination persists today, not as a medical term, but as an undercurrent in the contemporary cultural psyche. Its echoes can be found in the emotional labor demanded, the expectations imposed, and the subtle systems that still seek to regulate affect and embodiment.

Femininity now stands at a paradoxical crossroads, caught amidst self-expression and the pressure to conform. It lingers in the tension between autonomy and expectation, impulse and propriety, visibility and erasure. We celebrate the ‘bad girl’ archetype yet demand she still play nice. Within this volatile state, identity is shaped less by authenticity than by navigation. This contradiction breeds a schizophrenic femininity, where desire twists against decorum, and performance becomes inseparable from reality. In an image-saturated world, the female form is always in motion — flailing, screaming, running naked through symbolic forests of repression. She is both theater and enigma, her so-called “hysteria” a visceral language when words fall short.

The works in It Smells Like Girl embrace this disturbance, revealing states of rupture where the body speaks, when it refuses to be contained. Across mediums, the artists channel a sensorial vocabulary of refusal, one that resists clarity in favor of sensation, mood, and unease. Rather than pathologizing emotional excess, the exhibition proposes hysteria as a radical strategy that exposes the fractures beneath the surface. It is both an homage and a provocation; a call to witness, to question, and perhaps, to unravel. Here, the unruly becomes necessary and a method of survival that transforms instability into a form of presence, even power. As society continues to oscillate between revering and rejecting female strength, It Smells Like Girl asks what choice is left but to embrace the spectacle?

Participating artists:::
Kelly Akashi, Isabelle Albuquerque, Danica Barboza, Tosh Basco, Stefania Batoeva, Meriem Bennani, Jibz Cameron, Janiva Ellis, Eunnam Hong, Juliana Huxtable, Nadia Lee Cohen, Tala Madani, Jeanette Mundt, Naudline Pierre, Roksana Pirouzmand, Jessi Reaves, Bunny Rogers, Gabriela Ruiz, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Diane Severin Nguyen, Flannery Silva, Marianna Simnett, Connor Marie Stankard, Frances Stark, Jordan Strafer, Martine Syms, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Nora Turato, Michelle Uckotter, Cajsa von Zeipel, Ambera Wellmann, Aleksandra Waliszewska, K8 Hardy

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SINGLES WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Sep
20
to Sep 21

SINGLES WEEKEND WORKSHOP

Sat Sept 20th - 11AM - 3PM
Sun Sept 21st 11AM - 3PM

to register >>> please fill out this very brief questionnaire
space is limited!!

**early bird special - $600 if you register before Sept 10th
$666 - if after Sept 10th

Program Schedule:::
Sat: Going In
- thee best writing prompts
- performance warmups
- guided improv
- homework… you will come out of this with a performance!

Sun: Getting It Out
- getting on your feet
- developing a support system
- setting up your own show
* bonus biz drag *
fundraising crash course
plus Q + A time with me

*What you will need to bring*
comfortable clothing, notebook and pen, lunch
I will have extra supplies if you need, snacks + drinks

PRAISE FOR SINGLES RETREAT:::

I’ve been performing for two decades and took Singles Retreat to zhuzh up my practice. Oooweee did it deliver! Jibz’s prompts led me to *multiple* narrative breakthroughs in a project that was heretofore giving "meh". Thank you, Jibz!! - CPR

The fundraising segment lit a fire to ask for more resources for a project. Not to be all MLM but I actually made money as a result of this program (!). - MJ

This was such a special class! I’d been wanting an excuse/structure to get deeper into performance, and got to learn how the proverbial sausage is made DIRECTLY from one of my favorite performers. I would take this class again in a heartbeat!!! The community aspect was an unexpected bonus! - CJ

I loved how Jibz demystified solo performance in terms of considering all the collaboration involved, all of the behind the scenes antics & logistics, and all of the juicy intel about how much money it does or doesn’t cost to put on a show. It meant a lot to me to have really generous insights from Jibz, whose work I so love, it was exciting from the POV of an admirerer AND encouraging from the POV of a dirtbag low budget performer. - BP

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Weirdo Night NEW YORK October 14th
Oct
14
7:30 PM19:30

Weirdo Night NEW YORK October 14th

Weirdo Night NYC - October 14th - coming to the ringa ding ding dong BELL HOUSE!!

TIckets!

$25 - General Admission
$35 - Preferred Seating (limited)
Will sell out like Nirvana 

Door Time: 7:00 pm
Show Time: 7:30 pm
Front Bar opens 6pm

If you have an accessibility request, please email thebellhouse@livenation.com

Starring:::

❇ OHYUNG
❇ FRANCESCA D’UVA
❇ MIGUEL ALEJANDRO CASTILLO
❇ CHERIE

OHYUNG is a film composer and experimental musician. Drawing on ambient soundscapes, harsh noise and euphoric pop, OHYUNG brings together disparate sounds and influences in their music. Her most recent record You Are Always On My Mind is releasing on March 28th. As a film composer, they recently scored the A24 film Problemista as well as HBO’s Fantasmas in collaboration with Julio Torres.

Francesca D’Uva is an experimental comedian and composer living in Brooklyn. she's appeared in Adult Swim’s Three Busy Debras and in HBO’s Fantasmas. She was also a writer on the upcoming Adult Swim animated series Women Wearing Shoulder Pads. She performed her one person show This Is My Favorite Song at Playwrights Horizons as part of their 2024-2025 season.

Miguel Alejandro Castillo is a queer director, choreographer, installation artist, educator, and performer from Caracas, Venezuela. Recently recognized as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2024, Castillo is drawn to the permeability of art forms and multicultural collaborations. His current research explores diasporic imagination and future folklore.

Cherie lives in New York and hosts a monthly "Revolutionary Sip n Paint Salon" at her local bar, educating her attendees about revolutionary figures, alive or dead, who stood up to the system and made change in the world. She has worked as a hair salon technician at "Vidal Shaboom....by Jerome" as well as a personal injury lawyer within the law firm of "Popper, Jape and Huh?". She is also an undesignated member of the performance troupe SHABOOM!.

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Weirdo Night September 7th
Sep
7
7:30 PM19:30

Weirdo Night September 7th

Weirdo Night - September 7th - back to skewl scorched earth conflict avoidant Lib-ro season show show show!

Tickets!

Doors 7:00
Show 7:30

Starring::::

Tzotzona
Charles Galin
Scottie Harvey
+ Taylor the Sax Bottom 

Tzotzona, aka Marvin Astorga (he/him), is a Los Angeles-based electronic musician and 1/2 of the experimental music/performance duo Xina Xurner along with artist Young Joon Kwak. Astorga’s solo project, Tzotzona, is a brown-futurist electronic music undertaking synthesizing elements of Cumbia, Technobanda, house, techno, acid, Quebradita, and 3bal. Taking inspiration from Astorga’s upbringing in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Borderplex, as well as sampling, a pre-Columbian imaginary, and 90s-era Mexican television, the music looks to the recent and ancestral past for a vision of a queer, brown future where borders, gender, time, and space are fluid.

Charles Galin King is a creature of facial expressions who brings the weird, creepiness, warmth to the stagessss and lets us feel things alongside him/they, an East Los King: Charles Galin King.

Scottie Harvey is a writer & animator from Los Angeles. She is currently writing her first novel which is about the last Cold Stone Creamery.  For Weirdo Night, Scottie will be showing a 10-minute segment of her play “Hole Gazers,”  about a gay porn star who finds his likeness has been appropriated for a series of workplace accident prevention videos. “It looks like me,” he thinks, “but I’ve never fallen into a manhole before.” www.scottieharvey.com.

Taylor Plenn is a professional saxophone and flute player.



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Weirdo Night SFMOMA September 4th
Sep
4
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night SFMOMA September 4th

Weirdo Night SFMOMA - September 4th - BAY AREA COMRADES AND CRIMINALS!!! Weirdo Night is coming to San Francisco!!

7 PM: Weirdo Night, Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Admission is FREE

starring Bay Area luminaries:::

Xandra Ibarra
OBSIDIENNE OBSURD

Cliff Hengst 

and unpopular LA dance company
HAAGS 



Xandra Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects.

OBSIDIENNE OBSURD is a mind-bending, genre-melting, surrealist, maximalist, pseudo-intellectual bespoke garbage-wearing drag goblin multi-hyphenate. Hailed for her bold silhouettes, absurdist performance proclivity, and iconically recognizable paint, OBSIDIENNE is a prolific drag producer, outlandishly ambitious performer, and classical violist.

Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer who works and lives in San Francisco. He has exhibited work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth and Machine Project in Los Angeles, the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

Haaggzz (fluid spelling) is a wig-forward dance troupe consisting of Emilia Richeson-Valiente of Ponysweat and Jibz Cameron of Dynasty Handbag. They are a pleasure-led and anti-aspirational exploration of body fun.

Emilia Richeson-Valiente (she/her) is a performer, writer, and the creator of punk-feminist aerobics practice Pony Sweat. She has cultivated a loyal following through her “fiercely noncompetitive” dance aerobics format, which celebrates anti-perfectionism, self-expression, gaiety, and the liberation of bodies. Alongside her Pony Sweat work, Emilia writes about music and somatic practices and is published in Dopamine Book’s 2025 WITCH Anthology.

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Weirdo Night July 6th
Jul
6
6:00 PM18:00

Weirdo Night July 6th

TICKETS!

Ajani Brannum
Patty Gone
Brianna Ahlmark 
+ Taylor the Sax Bottom 

$20


Doors 6
Show 6:30 
@zebulonla

Ajani Brannum (they/them) investigates the choreographies of life in the shadow of empire. (Where are we?) Through a fluid, shapeshifting performative practice, they observe the forces that persist - for better, for worse, for otherwise - in and through our living. (How are we?) Ajani draws heavily on the knowledges they inherit as a Black queer maker with southern roots, honoring and extending the ancestral wisdoms that animate their craft. (How do we?) 

Patty Gone is a Los Angeles–based video artist, poet, and performer whose work revels in the aesthetics of nonsense and the minor key of the surreal. Blending academic rigor with low-budget mysticism, her performances and video essays remix pop detritus—soap operas, sitcoms, children’s lit—into strange, speculative forms. She has shown work at the Queens Museum, REDCAT, and the Porn Film Festival Berlin, with writing in The BelieverHyperallergic, and Art Papers.

Brianna Ahlmark is a comedian and clown based in Los Angeles. Often compared to Andy Kaufman, Jesus, and other women, she has no credits at this time.

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May
4
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night May 4th

Weirdo Night - May 4th - operatic /haggard movie star / uptight drag scene edition!!
TICKETS

Starring
The Babies of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Holy Sun Opera House with (Goth) Choir
Celine Solution

Holy Sun Opera House is classically trained soprano and drummer Krissy Barker and composer dl Salo. Together they weave symphonic sounds and operatic vocals. Their music evokes joy, terror, anger, love, and grief in a dreamlike fashion. The band has been described as one that would play the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks.

Celine Solution thought she had it all, until it all came crashing down. Now, she’s got to find out on her own that she’s got what it takes, and for every problem that comes her way…she’s got the solution.

The Babies of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane were born from a theatrical adaptation of the iconic film of the same name, directed/adapted by Nat Moonhill.  With Zoe Morris as Baby Jane Hudson, Veronica Moonhill as Blanche Hudson.

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Titanic Depression - On The Boards - Seattle
Mar
27
8:00 PM20:00

Titanic Depression - On The Boards - Seattle

Dynasty Handbag - Titanic Depression
March 27-29, 2025

Thursday, March 27 | 8pm
Friday, March 28 | 8pm
Saturday, March 29 | 8pm

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A hilarious reimagining of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic by the peerlessly subversive and wacky Dynasty Handbag.

Dynasty Handbag’s Titanic Depression sends up James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood hit, reimagining it as a hilariously bleak parable of human arrogance in today’s era of runaway, consumerism-driven climate change. Co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of its 2023 Live Arts festival Planet Justice, Titanic Depression is Dynasty Handbag’s first major institutional commission in nearly eight years.

More so a live multimedia event than solely performance, Titanic Depression combines animation, video, soundscapes and improvisation into a story about how a ship advertised as unsinkable strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks; fitted with too few lifeboats, Titanic’s poor, third class passengers were largely left behind as the vessel’s wealthier occupants were rushed to safety. The disaster became a potent symbol of the haves versus the have nots.

Turned into numerous films—the most financially successful being Cameron’s—this well-worn narrative of class and gender inequality is, in the hands of Handbag’s outrageous physicality and unique improvisational skills, wildly digressed, veering from Hollywood’s obsession with disaster plots to our morbid fascination with death—namely, our own. She plays various characters in the film, such as “Rose,'' who sparks a torrid, interspecies romance with “Jack,” a mute octopus escaping the warming seas by stowing away on the ship disguised as a giant ladies hat. While the iceberg melts in balmy weather before the Titanic reaches it, the vessel goes down anyway in a tour de force of nonsensical, collective doom—a tragicomedy of our own making that no amount of metal straws or fastidiously-sorted recycling will fix. At a time of climate crisis on seemingly every front, “levity arises out of the sheer pressure cooker of the era we are collectively experiencing,” as the artist has noted.

Commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe. It was co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice. The performance is made possible with support from Creative Capital, The Guggenheim Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, Center for Performance Research, Chorus Foundation, and MacDowell.

Photos by Walter Woldarczyk

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Weirdo Night Fire Relief Benefit!!!
Feb
2
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night Fire Relief Benefit!!!

WEIRDO NIGHT❗❗❗❗❗

Fire Relief Benefit❗❗❗❗❗❗

☂ lets gerrrrroooooooooo!!!!!

TICKETS

with

ISAAC PRADO

JULIUS SMACK

TARA JANE O'NEIL

+ TAYLOR THE FLUTE BOTTOM

🌴 This show will have ASL interpreters 🌴

WN ❤️ LA • WN ❤️ LA • WN ❤️ LA • WN ❤️ LA

Sunday, Feb 2nd

7 doors / 7:30 show

linkin stinkin ☮

Zebulon

$20

flyer by the brilly @pigpenhaulin

https://link.dice.fm/Weirdo-Night-Fire-Relief-Benefit-Feb-2https://link.dice.fm/Weirdo-Night-Fire-Relief-Benefit-Feb-2

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Jan
17
to Jan 19

Bored Identity at The Lab SF

Buy Tickets
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm - sold out - JAN 18th TIX coming soon!

$27 adv / $30 door / free or discounted for members

In the spirit of bygone 70’s comedy albums, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist. Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Songs include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For The Lab performance, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist and actor. She is most well known for her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag, which has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, Centre Pompidou among others. Jibz is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. Her film Weirdo Night, directed by Mariah Garnett is an official 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection. In May of 2023 she premiered a new theater piece called Titanic Depression. She released her fist comedy record, The Bored Identity, on Wacky Wacko records in November 2023.

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Dec
1
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night Dec 1st

Last Weirdo Night of 2024!
TICKETS
Dec 1
Zebulon
Doors 7 show 7:30
ATTN! WN will have an ASL interpreter for the first time.  Please let people know! 

Chaki the Funk Wizard is often talked about in shrouded tales of his phosphorescent appearance, face-melting electro funk, and cosmic origin story. Chaki has shared the stage with like-minded weirdos Fishbone, Berlin, Bob Log III, Captured By Robots, Flipper, The Space Lady and Shannon & The Clams and has performed at Noise Pop, The Mosswood Meltdown and Offbeat Fest. He is fresh off of tours with El Vez the Mexican Elvis and Jerry Harrison & Adrien Belew's Remain in Light band. "Watching Chaki perform is like watching a child lovingly eat beautiful, musical, mud." - John Waters

Claire Woolner is an artist, performer, etc. whose comedic work is often not funny.  She spent the past year touring her award-winning solo clown show, A Retrospection, about which The New York Times wrote "if the performance artist Marina Abromovic were a clown".  

Los Angeles by way of Miami post-punk outfit, Donzii creates their own 'Existential Groove' through a combination of drum machines, arrhythmic bass, and up-front vocals that you can't help but dance to. Their theatrical performances are known to take the audience by surprise and win over fans with their authenticity. Donzii is, Jenna Balfe-vocals, Jorge Elbrecht-guitar, Dennis Fuller-Bass/Drums.

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Titanic Depression - MOCA - Los Angeles
Nov
15
to Nov 17

Titanic Depression - MOCA - Los Angeles

Dynasty Handbag - Titanic Depression
Friday, November 15, 2024, 7:30pm
Saturday, November 16, 2024, 6:30pm
Sunday, November 17th, 4:00pm

GET TICKETS

A hilarious reimagining of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic by the peerlessly subversive and wacky Dynasty Handbag.

Dynasty Handbag’s Titanic Depression sends up James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood hit, reimagining it as a hilariously bleak parable of human arrogance in today’s era of runaway, consumerism-driven climate change. Co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of its 2023 Live Arts festival Planet Justice, Titanic Depression is Dynasty Handbag’s first major institutional commission in nearly eight years.

More so a live multimedia event than solely performance, Titanic Depression combines animation, video, soundscapes and improvisation into a story about how a ship advertised as unsinkable strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks; fitted with too few lifeboats, Titanic’s poor, third class passengers were largely left behind as the vessel’s wealthier occupants were rushed to safety. The disaster became a potent symbol of the haves versus the have nots.

Turned into numerous films—the most financially successful being Cameron’s—this well-worn narrative of class and gender inequality is, in the hands of Handbag’s outrageous physicality and unique improvisational skills, wildly digressed, veering from Hollywood’s obsession with disaster plots to our morbid fascination with death—namely, our own. She plays various characters in the film, such as “Rose,'' who sparks a torrid, interspecies romance with “Jack,” a mute octopus escaping the warming seas by stowing away on the ship disguised as a giant ladies hat. While the iceberg melts in balmy weather before the Titanic reaches it, the vessel goes down anyway in a tour de force of nonsensical, collective doom—a tragicomedy of our own making that no amount of metal straws or fastidiously-sorted recycling will fix. At a time of climate crisis on seemingly every front, “levity arises out of the sheer pressure cooker of the era we are collectively experiencing,” as the artist has noted.

Commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe. It was co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice. The performance is made possible with support from Creative Capital, The Guggenheim Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, Center for Performance Research, Chorus Foundation, and MacDowell.

Photos by Walter Woldarczyk

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The Bored Identity at The Lab San Francisco
Oct
11
8:00 PM20:00

The Bored Identity at The Lab San Francisco

The Lab2948 16th StSan Francisco, CA, 94103 (map)

Buy Tickets
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$27 adv / $30 door / free or discounted for members
Request your member DICE Code or become a member.

In the spirit of bygone 70’s comedy albums, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist. Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Songs include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For The Lab performance, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist and actor. She is most well known for her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag, which has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, Centre Pompidou among others. Jibz is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. Her film Weirdo Night, directed by Mariah Garnett is an official 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection. In May of 2023 she premiered a new theater piece called Titanic Depression. She released her fist comedy record, The Bored Identity, on Wacky Wacko records in November 2023.

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Aug
4
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night August 4th

Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag
Sunday, August 4th 
Doors 7 / Show 7:30

with special guests:
Aparna Nancherla
Mirthquake Jackson
Yves Saint Croissant

Aparna Nancherla is a standup comedian who also acts and writes! gross! She has recently appeared on Abbott Elementary and after midnight. You can hear her on the great northern or in the baby shark movie. and she does stand up all around this fine geographical mass. She also wrote unreliable narrator, a book of essays about self-doubt. speaking of which, enough already with this bio! @aparnapkin

Mirthquake Jackson - Full time composer and one half of the mirthquake - a kraut surf art psyc band based in Los Angeles. Also performs live scores for clown comedy shows like stand up and clown, Chad live directs and co hosts a deranged comedy contest show called Joe dome.  @mirthquake_music

Yves Saint Croissant - Born on the stage of the iconic San Francisco Stud Bar, a creature emerged that is equal parts party girl and glam Godess with a heaping helping of WTF?! Yves Saint Croissant is a community leader and a trendsetting staple of Bay Area Queer culture who now resides in LA with her adoring wife Travesdee and her army of Barbies. She’s a founding Queen of Drag Story Hour and most recently leads the most dynamic and all Filipino girl group, FiliPiNX.
* find her and her girls on IG: Yvessaintcroissant & fili.pinx

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Weirdo Night July 7th!
Jul
7
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night July 7th!

JULY 7th is WEIRDO NIGHT!  7 YEAR ZEBULON ANNIVERSARY!!!  Minus 2 years when I had crabs

TICCETS!

Quickstop coffee lineup!!! Too hot!  Burns roof of mouth!  tastes like dirty ass!  Makes you shit!   gets the job done!  

Sandy Honig

Colin Self

Sally Spitz

Are these thoses people’s real names?  

Sandy Honig is a comedian and director, best know for co-creating the show Three Busy Debras on Adult Swim. She writes for The Eric Andre show and most recently directed the Hannah Einbinder stand up special “Everything Must Go”. She performs stand up and characters wherever she is legally allowed. 

Colin Self is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based in New York and Berlin. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased. As many of their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities, their work envelops collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. Colin pics by Bobbi Menuez

Sally Spitz is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles. Former lead singer of post-punk band French Vanilla, she released her electronic pop solo debut album ‘Real Music’ in September 2022.

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Jun
9
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night June 9th at Zebulon

It’s fuckin Weirdo Night again June 9th!

Get Tickets!
At Zebulon

Father’s Day Pride Show!  - A special night where all the acts including me are strong but caring heterosexual cis-gendered successful dads that earn abundantly for families and take care of our daughters and sons and wives and dear mothers!

Starring::::::::::::::
Ali Liebegott
Travesdee
Taylor the Sax Bottom
+ MORE

Doors 7 / Show 7:30
20 CLAMZ plus annoying fees 



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"The Bored Identity" Joe's Pub
Apr
22
9:30 PM21:30

"The Bored Identity" Joe's Pub

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records!
TICKETS

In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

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HAAGS at Night of 1000 Kates
Apr
20
8:00 PM20:00

HAAGS at Night of 1000 Kates

My dance troupé HAAGS (fluid spelling) with Emilia Ponysweat is performing a new piece at this Kate Bush worship magical dork fest!

There Goes A Tenner:
The 10th Annual Night of 1000 Kates 

April 20, 2024
7:30pm - 2am
Union Transfer, Philadelphia
& Livestreamed to the world

​$20 in advance, $25 at door
BUY UNION TRANSFER TICKETS

$5 livestream (sales end Noon 4/20)
Doors: 7:30pm | Performances: 8pm - 11pm
Dance Party w/ 1000 Kates DJs 11pm -  2am
21+, *Masked Event*

An annual evening of shameless ecstatic lushness - using Kate Bush's craft as the source material! Join us for a night of music, dance, theatrics, film and revelry. Over *90*  performers take the stage! Followed by a dance party to all yr favorite witchy bangers.

Now in its 10th year, 1000 Kates is one night of all manner of performances inspired by Kate Bush's vast catalogue. Since 2014 over 650 performers - mostly hailing from Philly - have contributed their magic to this truly epic event.

​• Accessibility: The venue and bathrooms at Union Transfer are accessible. Reserved seating available upon request.

• We will be asking all attendees to wear a mask when not eating or drinking.

Any additional questions? Contact 1000kates@gmail.com

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"The Bored Identity"  at FRINGEARTS in PHILLY
Apr
18
9:30 PM21:30

"The Bored Identity" at FRINGEARTS in PHILLY

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records!
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In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

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"The Bored Identity" Record Release
Mar
7
7:30 PM19:30

"The Bored Identity" Record Release

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records!

In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

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***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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Titanic Depression at NYLA
Jan
14
to Jan 20

Titanic Depression at NYLA

MAINSTAGE THEATER

JANUARY 14-15 & 18-20, 7:30PM

TICKETS START AT $25/ $15 FOR PRESENTERS

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNDER THE RADAR
RUNTIME: 90 MINS

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After a sold-out run at Pioneer Works last summer, this hilariously bleak tale of human arrogance in today’s age of consumerism-driven climate change is back by popular demand! Dynasty Handbag’s Titanic Depression is a parody of James Cameron’s Hollywood hit “Titanic,” the live multimedia event combines animation, video, soundscapes, and improvisation, bringing to life the story of the unsinkable ship that strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks. This disaster became a potent symbol of the haves versus the have-nots. 

Handbag plays various characters in the film, such as “Rose,’’ who sparks a torrid, interspecies romance with “Jack,” a mute octopus escaping the warming seas by stowing away on the ship disguised as a giant ladies hat. While the iceberg melts in balmy weather before the Titanic reaches it, the vessel goes down anyway in a tour de force of nonsensical, collective doom—a tragicomedy of our own making that no amount of metal straws or fastidiously-sorted recycling will fix.

Don’t miss out on this unforgettable performance that will leave you thinking about the consequences of our actions. At a time of climate crisis on seemingly every front, “levity arises out of the sheer pressure cooker of the era we are collectively experiencing,” as Handbag has noted.

Presented in partnership with Under the Radar, Mark Russell, Festival Director & ArKtype, Festival Producer. More information at utrfest.org 

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Made In LA
Dec
10
to Dec 31

Made In LA

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living

  • OCT 1 – DEC 31, 2023

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. These practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life; community networks; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories.

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living takes its title from a quote by the renowned Los Angeles artist Noah Purifoy, which is inscribed on a plaque at the Watts Towers: “One does not have to be a visual artist to utilize creative potential. Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life, and a formula for doing the right thing.” The history of Watts Towers—built by Simon Rodia over the course of 33 years and then preserved by the local South L.A. community, including Purifoy, to become a hub for arts education—embodies this ethos and offers a salient metaphor for this biennial.

Join us for the Made in L.A. Opening Celebration on Saturday, September 30. Be among the first to see the exhibition, and dance in the courtyard to music from Made in L.A. artist collective Mas Exitos. Galleries open late. Cash bar.

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"The Bored Identity" Record Release
Dec
9
8:00 PM20:00

"The Bored Identity" Record Release

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records! In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

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***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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"The Bored Identity" Record Release shows
Nov
18
8:00 PM20:00

"The Bored Identity" Record Release shows

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records! In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

All Shows:

***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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The "Bored Identity" Record Release at The Elysian
Nov
18
8:00 PM20:00

The "Bored Identity" Record Release at The Elysian

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records! In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

All Shows:

***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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Broadcast Bash at Pioneer Works
Nov
4
8:00 PM20:00

Broadcast Bash at Pioneer Works

Join us for our second annual Broadcast Bash. This year, we’re celebrating the release of our first ever print edition. Since 2020, Broadcast has thrived as a forum for inspired and radical thinking across the arts and science. Now for the first time, we’re committing Broadcast to paper and ink. And boy, does she look handsome.

FREE

We'll have readings from the issue by hannah baer and Ed Park; a performance from the wildly unpredictable Dynasty Handbag; rock theater by the legendary The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black; a DJ set by Herbert Harmonix (aka EZRAKH) of the label Thread Imprint; and stargazing in the garden with the Amateur Astronomers Association.

Join us as we celebrate the artists, scientists, writers, and in-betweens who make Broadcast possible. We’ll be handing out copies of the print issue for free; first-come, first served.

hannah baer is a writer and therapist based in New York. She is the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum, and the admin of the Instagram meme account, @malefragility. Her work has appeared in Jewish Currents, Artforum, The Drift, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

EZRAKH is a musician, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of New Jersey-based record label Thread Imprint. He draws inspiration from the soulful and psychedelic sounds of his upbringing, and mixes rock, R&B, jazz, electronic, and world music to create a style all of his own. Under his Herbert Harmonix alias he DJ’s utilizing his New Jersey dance music roots. He’s also the bandleader of the Mystery Klub, his live performance ensemble. In 2020 he released his album Infinity: Sankopha & 87, featuring cover art direction by Ibrahim Ahmed, while in 2022 he released the single “Warrior Woman.” He has performed at Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, MANA Contemporary, South by Southwest, AFROPUNK, bunkr, and more.

Dynasty Handbag—alter ego of performer, visual artist, and actor Jibz Cameron—has presented multimedia work at arts venues such as Pioneer Works, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, and the Centre Pompidou, among others. Cameron is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. She produces and hosts Weirdo Night, a monthly comedy and performance event in Los Angeles and New York.

Ed Park’s new novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, will be published by Random House on November 7, 2023. His first one, Personal Days (2008), was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Park was a longtime editor and writer at The Village Voice and a founding editor of The Believer. His short fiction and nonfiction appear in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, and Harper's. Park currently teaches writing at Princeton.

Kembra Pfahler formed The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (TVHKB) with Samoa Moriki in New York in 1990. A theatrical rock group, TVHKB links a monster aesthetic to a dark feminine archetype. Named in honor of cult horror film heroine Karen Black, Pfahler's band performs amid elaborate hand-constructed sets, in which she acts out transgressive physical feats. Wearing a number of teased black wigs with blacked-out teeth, black stiletto boots, and her body painted blue, pink, red, or yellow, Pfahler heads a team of "The Girls of Karen Black," similarly styled. TVHKB records include: A National Healthcare, Triple X Records (1990); The Anti-Naturalist, Cleopatra Records (1995); Black Date, Cleopatra Records (1998); and the limited edition vinyl LP, Fuck Island (2012) and Slippery When Dead (2020). Pfahler is represented by the gallery Emalin in London and will be releasing a capsule collection for SSENSE, made in collaboration with her longtime friend, designer Rick Owens. For the Broadcast Bash performance, co-founder Samoa Moriki will be on guitar, Gyda Gash on bass, and Eric Robel on drums.

Pioneer Works Broadcast is an ad-free publication that encourages radical thinking across the arts and sciences. Broadcast reflects the spirit of Pioneer Works and extends beyond the space’s physical walls in Brooklyn through narrative-driven journalism, essays, criticism, ruminations, and original videos. Noted contributors include Hilton Als, Elif Batuman, Richard Dawkins, Jennifer Egan, Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene, Hua Hsu, Gary Indiana, Marlon James, Ben Lerner, Eileen Myles, Roger Penrose, and Frank Wilczek.

Founded in 2020, Pioneer Works Broadcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.

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The Feminine Absurd: The Queer Body in Made in L.A. 2023
Oct
24
7:30 PM19:30

The Feminine Absurd: The Queer Body in Made in L.A. 2023

The Feminine Absurd: The Queer Body in Made in L.A. 2023

  • TUESDAY OCT 24, 2023 7:30 PM

As artists who work between performance and object-making, Marcel Alcalá, Jibz Cameron, and Young Joon Kwak will speak to their work blurring the distinctions between these mediums. Working in queer communities, these artists explore what we could call "femininity" or "femaleness" in their lives and practices, but treat the subject with a healthy dose of absurdism, satire, and drag. Moderated by Made in L.A. Luce Curatorial Fellow, Ashton Cooper, with audience Q&A to follow.

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Weirdo Night at THE HAMMER MUSEUM!
Oct
14
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night at THE HAMMER MUSEUM!

Part of the series Made in L.A. 2023: Programs and Performances

Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag

  • SATURDAY OCT 14, 2023 7:30 PM

Weirdo Night is a popular long-running freak forward variety show hosted and curated by Dynasty Handbag (alter ego of Made in L.A. artist Jibz Cameron). For the Hammer iteration, Weirdo Night will feature performances by Made in L.A. artists Marcel Alcalá, Pippa Garner (in absentia), Page Person, and Xina Xurner (Young Joon Kwak and Marvin Astorga) with travesdee, plus a dance performance by HAAGS (Jibz Cameron + Emilia Richeson of Ponysweat).

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?

Ticketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. One ticket per guest. Box office opens one hour before the event.
Member Benefit: Subject to availability, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Members can pickup a ticket for themselves and a guest. Learn more about membership.
Parking: Valet parking is available on Lindbrook Drive for $10 cash only. Self-parking is available under the museum. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is an $8 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

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Weirdo Night - on a MONDAY 🛌​
Sep
25
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night - on a MONDAY 🛌​

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with special guests

SHAMBOOM!

Pauline Lay

Amanda-Faye Jimenez

Taylor (the sax bottom) Plenn 

SHABOOM! created by Silky Shoemaker, Lex Vaughn and Paul Soileau, is a spectacle teetering at the edge of disaster. Sharing a mind of anarchy and absurdity, we create environments and actions of pleasure and liberation for our audience. SHABOOM! is not just an experiment with failure, but a jubilant funeral procession for the notion of success, driven by maddening determination and an impressive lack of good judgment. SHABOOM! is theatre for the masses that forces culture and critique through the clown horn of queer slapstick.

Amanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer and comedic performer born and raised in Los Angeles. She has performed at The Hammer Museum and in the playroom of the McDonald's in next to her favorite gay bar, but is mostly known for being a lesbian irl and online and is friends with a lot of dogs. 

Pauline Lay is an instrumentalist, composer, and events organizer in Los Angeles. She has performed and presented work at several larger institutions, venues, and areas throughout the US, but has also enjoyed the spirit of DIY venues, backyards, and cozy living rooms. Apart from her solo improvised violin and electronics performances, she currently performs and collaborates with other musicians in varying iterations and genres from duets to larger ensembles including her sound enveloping piece, “5x5, a composition for 25 synthesizers.

Taylor Plenn is a professional saxophone and flute player

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Weirdo Night August 6th
Aug
6
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night August 6th

Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag
Sunday August 6th 😮 its HOT and IM LOOSE!
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☀ featuring ☀

💋 AMBER + AMANDA MILLER - are sisters, a comedy duo, and most recently co-hosts of FANGIRL CENTRAL, a podcast centering Black/queer fandom where they discuss how being a fangirl is central to their identity with a range of guests. Last year, they wrote, directed, and co-starred in their short comedy film THE DAY I DIDN’T MEET ONE DIRECTION, which premiered at The Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles. They also debuted an original autobiographical music revue about Black fangirls healing from white Disney Channel content called DISNEY VORTEX! @amandalaynemiller -@amberlmiller- @fangirl.central

🥂 MICHAEL MATSUNO is a flutist born in Osaka, Japan and raised in Los Angeles, CA. His performance work ranges from classical and experimental music, to improvisation and poetry. Most often Michael can be heard performing with the San Diego Symphony and on the Monday Evening Concert series for new music. Michaelmatsuno.com

🍬 JOSEPHINEX (all der way from BERLINER!!) is the lead singer of Godmother (@omgodmother), which they describe as critical theory in pop-music drag. In 2022, the Berlin-based band released the ‘Playing the Victim’ EP, and this spring, they followed up with its evil twin, ‘Playing the Villain’. Outside of Godmother, Josephinex has recently appeared in an intervention by the Yes Men during Berlin Fashion Week, in the musical ‘Hyäne Fischer’ at the Volksbühne and in the music video “16 Tons” by Nina Hagen, besides contributing to Documenta Fifteen along with the crew from the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Center for Art and Urbanistics).

🌡 TAYLOR “SAXBOTTOM” PLENN is a professional saxophone and flute player, has been honing his craft for the past 16 years, starting his musical journey while in high school. Taylor's experience spans across various musical styles, including hard bop, rock and roll, blues, free jazz, hip hop, and electronic music.

Doors 7 / Show 7:30
$20

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